System and method thereof for dynamically associating a link to an information resource with a multimedia content displayed in a web-page

Abstract

A method for associating a link to web content with a multimedia content element are provided. The method includes identifying at least one multimedia content element in a web-page; generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for the at least one multimedia content element, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of the other computational cores; matching the generated signature to signatures of web content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web content; determining a link to the matching web content; and modifying the at least one multimedia content by adding the link.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for associating a link to web content with a multimedia content element, comprising:
 identifying at least one multimedia content element in a web-page;   generating, by a signature generator system, a signature for the at least one multimedia content element, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of the other computational cores;   matching the generated signature to signatures of web server content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web server content;   determining a link to the matching web server content; and   modifying the at least one multimedia content by adding the link.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 detecting a user gesture respective of the added link; and   upon detecting the user gesture, causing a display of the web server content.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the user gesture is any of: a scroll on the at least one multimedia content element, a click on the at least one multimedia content element, and a response to the at least one multimedia content element. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining the context of the multimedia content element respective of the generated signature, wherein the link is determined based on the context.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one multimedia content element is any of: an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, and images of signals. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the link is added to the multimedia content element as an overlay object. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating a signature for the at least one multimedia content element further comprises:
 generating a signature for each portion of the at least one multimedia content element; and   clustering the signatures for the portions into a signature cluster, wherein the signature for the at least one multimedia content element is the signature cluster.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the matching is performed by the plurality of computational cores. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 modifying the web-page by adding the modified at least one multimedia content; and   sending the modified web-page to a browser requesting the web-page.   
     
     
         10 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute the method according to  claim 1 . 
     
     
         11 . A system for associating a link to web content with a multimedia content element from at least a web-page, comprising:
 an interface to a network for receiving the at least the web-page containing at least one multimedia content element, wherein a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web-page is received from any one of a user device and a web server hosting the web-page;   a processing unit; and   a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, configure the system to:   identify at least one multimedia content element in a web-page;   generate, by a signature generator system, a signature for the at least one multimedia content element, wherein the signature generator system includes a plurality of computational cores enabled to receive the multimedia content element and to generate a signature for at least a portion of the multimedia content element, each computational core having properties that are at least partly statistically independent of the other computational cores;   match the generated signature to signatures of web server content existing on at least one web server to determine matching web server content;   determine a link to the matching web server content; and   modify the at least one multimedia content by adding the link.   
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:
 detect a user gesture respective of the added link; and   upon detecting the user gesture, cause a display of the web server content.   
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 12 , wherein the user gesture is any of: a scroll on the at least one multimedia content element, a click on the at least one multimedia content element, and a response to the at least one multimedia content element. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:
 determine the context of the multimedia content element respective of the generated signature, wherein the link is determined based on the context.   
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein each of the at least one multimedia content element is any of: an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, and images of signals. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 14 , wherein the link is added to the multimedia content element as an overlay object. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:
 generate a signature for each portion of the at least one multimedia content element; and   cluster the signatures for the portions into a signature cluster, wherein the signature for the at least one multimedia content element is the signature cluster.   
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the matching is performed by the plurality of computational cores. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to:
 modify the web-page by adding the modified at least one multimedia content; and   send the modified web-page to a browser requesting the web-page.